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GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

elbows said:
The BBC news story about it says Ofcom arent imposing a fine or other sanction. And the GB News response is a disgrace.

www.bbc.co.uk

GB News host Mark Steyn's Covid vaccine claims broke Ofcom rules

Mark Steyn made "potentially harmful and materially misleading" claims, the media regulator rules.
www.bbc.co.uk
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GBN seem to be saying if they said some people say (the normal medical view) and others say (the Mark Steyn view) they'd have been alright.
I think parliament should open this up. We need to know if scientific facts are now to be a matter of choice in belief.
In this context I note that Youtube adverts seem pretty near the kncukle. I'm always have to stop adverts about gaming, bitcoin and other dodgy investments, Also miracle eye drops to stop you going blind not to mention cranky religions. Who regulates adverts on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter?
 
CH1 said:
Who regulates adverts on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter?
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the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP). You may be surprised to learn they're a bit crap (and woefully underfunded for all the content they oversee)
 
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Karl Masks said:
I think everything Dolan claimed in that twitter segment I linked has been proven false. The claim Covid isn't a serious illness, that Sweden did well, that lockdown is only ever a bad thing and not a necessary evil (caused in part by the lack of action ahead of time and the dithering that made them last longer).
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Ah, ok. I thought you were talking about thr video segment. Some right wingnuts commenting on Twitter there.
 
GB News accounts for the period up to May 2022 are out, they made £3.6m in turnover, but just the cost of staff was £12.75m, overall there's a loss of £30.7m for the year.

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It's basically one very expensive toy. :D

www.theguardian.com

Losses deepen at GB News as network moves to fend off rival TalkTV

Hiring costs for presenters such as Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg balloon while advertisers stay wary of right-leaning channel
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
cupid_stunt said:
GB News accounts for the period up to May 2022 are out, they made £3.6m in turnover, but just the cost of staff was £12.75m, overall there's a loss of £30.7m for the year.

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It's basically one very expensive toy. :D

www.theguardian.com

Losses deepen at GB News as network moves to fend off rival TalkTV

Hiring costs for presenters such as Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg balloon while advertisers stay wary of right-leaning channel
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Probably works out at less than 1p per lie/piece of disinformation, cheap for them really.
 
cupid_stunt said:
GB News accounts for the period up to May 2022 are out, they made £3.6m in turnover, but just the cost of staff was £12.75m, overall there's a loss of £30.7m for the year.

View attachment 366059

It's basically one very expensive toy. :D

www.theguardian.com

Losses deepen at GB News as network moves to fend off rival TalkTV

Hiring costs for presenters such as Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg balloon while advertisers stay wary of right-leaning channel
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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..and their main “rival” isn’t even a Tv channel, really. :D
 
cupid_stunt said:
GB News accounts for the period up to May 2022 are out, they made £3.6m in turnover, but just the cost of staff was £12.75m, overall there's a loss of £30.7m for the year.

View attachment 366059

It's basically one very expensive toy. :D

www.theguardian.com

Losses deepen at GB News as network moves to fend off rival TalkTV

Hiring costs for presenters such as Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg balloon while advertisers stay wary of right-leaning channel
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I wonder what the business case is here. I assume setting up a news channel is expensive and they don't make a profit for a while, several years, but how long do you carry on?
 
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BusLanes said:
I wonder what the business case is here. I assume setting up a news channel is expensive and they don't make a profit for a while, several years, but how long do you carry on?
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The ‘business case’ is shifting the Overton window towards a libertarian utopia of less regulation and taxation (and costly social provision thrown aside), which will ultimately benefit their investors even if the product itself is loss making. That’s what most wealthy media owners are after today.
 
Dogsauce said:
The ‘business case’ is shifting the Overton window towards a libertarian utopia of less regulation and taxation (and costly social provision thrown aside), which will ultimately benefit their investors even if the product itself is loss making. That’s what most wealthy media owners are after today.
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In terms of right wing media generally I agree, but these aren't talking points that I've seen very much of on GBNews particularly.
 
Dogsauce said:
They don’t need to make those aims explicitly, just weaponise this ‘culture war’ bollocks to make sure people espousing the small-state view get elected off the back of it.
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I haven't seen much interest from them in getting anyone in particular elected either.
Seems plausible that there is just an interest in them stirring the culture war pot because it helps keep people divided, and their mind well away from economic and class concerns.

Mostly just making noise and keeping people occupied.
 
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BusLanes said:
I wonder what the business case is here. I assume setting up a news channel is expensive and they don't make a profit for a while, several years, but how long do you carry on?
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They will never make money, Sky News has never made any money, they have heavy annual loses, which if IIRC are around the £20m mark, but it does act as a 'barker channel' by promoting other Sky channels, which has some value to the owners. When Comcast took over Sky in 2018, they signed a legally binding commitment to maintaining inflation-adjusted funding in Sky News for 10 years.

No idea what will happen in 2028, but as a sister station to NBC some think their cancelled plans to launch a new NBC Sky World Channel may come into play, I guess they will be watching carefully as to how the merger of the BBC News and BBC World News channels work out in terms to viewing figures.

Hopefully any viewers that drift away from the new BBC News channel will go to Sky and not fucking GBN.
 
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Mixed reviews for GB News today (from me).
This morning I flicked over to see Portillo sitting like a constipated judge who had overdone the deltoid weight training. He was conversing with some tweedy gentleman who said "Of course the Maroons had slaves of their own. I've just come back from Richmond Virginia................." The strapline said "Should descendants of slaves be compensated?" - or equivalent. Put on Desert Island Discs to avoid a heart attack.

This evening I flicked across during the intermission in "Sky - the papers" which has been solidly going on about Gary Lineker. GB News was a revelation! They had 2 awful paper reviewers plus ex-MP Neil Parrish who resigned over the tractor porn shock horror incident. He was brilliant. He did not hold back. Seemingly a vintage Tory wet, he was clearly pleased with the new Northern Ireland protocol agreement - and said that the DUP had boxed themselves into a corner and neede to find some policies instead of waving the Union Jack. Regarding the Silicon Valley Bank collapse he said the government need to sort it out - and all the banks in the UK were poor when it came to meeting the needs of businesses.
Meanwhile a ginger-haired younger male guest reviewer as much as said he hope the government didn't sort out the bank as it would cause "moral hazard"
Where to they get these people from?

If the BBC want to recover some credibility for "Question Time" they could start by having Neil Parrish on instead of the usual Nazi stooges representing GB News, Talk TV and the Telegraph (not forgetting Isabel Oakeshott).
 
8ball said:
I haven't seen much interest from them in getting anyone in particular elected either.
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You don't need names, just an ever-looming threat that pushes people to vote as far right as possible to keep Tory wets down and Labour commies out. Same process also functions to keep working people too fractured and paranoid to combine effectively against attacks on their rights, economic positions etc.
 
two sheds said:
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Are we sure that's not a spoof site?
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Unfortunately it's not. Unless by "spoof" you mean unauthorised by the Catholic Church, It's certainly unauthorised.

ChurchMilitant.tv

ChurchMilitant.tv (formerly RealCatholicTV.com) is a webshite that ostensibly promotes a form of Traditionalist Catholicism. The main goal of the site is to wipe out heterodoxy and to solidify the power of their version of orthodox Roman Catholic faith. The webshite promotes pro-life...
rationalwiki.org rationalwiki.org
 
two sheds said:
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Are we sure that's not a spoof site?
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Looks legit, google has indexed a post from him about being cancelled by the curch, although the link only goes to his account and I can't see the actual tweet, I don't know how twitter works, maybe he's deleted the tweet, but whatever, it's cheered me up no end after a very stressful morning. :D

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